ANXPLORER ETC2 [List of Unclassifed Manufacturers], ANXPLORER Datasheet

no-image

ANXPLORER

Manufacturer Part Number
ANXPLORER
Description
EDA TOOL FOR SCHEMATIC LEVEL OPTIMIZATION OF ANALOG & RF CIRCUITS
Manufacturer
ETC2 [List of Unclassifed Manufacturers]
Datasheet
ANXPLORER: EDA TOOL FOR SCHEMATIC LEVEL OPTIMIZATION OF ANALOG & RF CIRCUITS
OVERVIEW
Market analysis
Demand for faster devices consuming less power has revived
interest in analog circuits for interface, data conversion, amplifi-
cation, and even fast signal processing. As a result, Analog and
Mixed signal (AMS) IC (Integrated Circuit) industry is growing
much faster than its digital counterpart. According to market
analysis, AMS IC business is expected to grow at 10% CAGR
while the overall semiconductor market is growing at 5%. It will
therefore cross $60 billion by 2010 from $37 billion in 2005. Such
an explosive growth involves development of numerous circuits
in a short period of time.
Challenges in analog design
Analog circuits account for approximately 2% or less of the total
transistor count. However, they take up around 20% of total IC
area, and consume around 40% of the total design effort. Fur-
Data Sheet
AnXplorer
2010.07
Schematic
Optimization
AnXplorer: EDA Tool for Schematic Level Optimization of Analog & RF Circuits
thermore, analog circuits are also responsible for 50% of all de-
sign re-spins. The reason for the long development time and un-
predictability is that analog design lacks adequate automation.
The design flow is utterly effort intensive and dependent on in-
dividual skill and knowledge. Analog designers are in short sup-
ply, and it is difficult to grow the numbers quickly. This throws a
management challenge where it is needed to deliver a lot more in
a shorter time with very little resource. The need of the hour for
the industry is, therefore, a design synthesis tool for analog and
RF which which address issues like centering, mismatch, noise,
and post layout parasitics.
PRODUCT OFFERING
AnXplorer is a software solution to address the above problem. It
is a simulation and design equation based synthesis and optimi-
zation tool for analog and radio frequency (RF) circuits, by effi-
cient design space exploration. At the heart of it is a multi-
Centering

Related parts for ANXPLORER

ANXPLORER Summary of contents

Page 1

... Analog circuits account for approximately 2% or less of the total transistor count. However, they take up around 20% of total IC area, and consume around 40% of the total design effort. Fur- AnXplorer: EDA Tool for Schematic Level Optimization of Analog & RF Circuits Optimization thermore, analog circuits are also responsible for 50% of all de- sign re-spins ...

Page 2

... This leads to faster time-to-market. The productivity improvement enabled by AnXplorer has other benefits as well. It helps engineers to quickly judge the suitability of any given schematic for a particular purpose, and thus helps in evaluating multiple options before selecting a topology ...

Page 3

Proc. ICCAD 2001, pp 350-357. Shown in figure 3. Technology: IBM 0.5um BSIM3v3 models, obtained from http://www.mosis.org/test METRIC SPECIFICATION Gain ≥ Unity gain BW ≥ 255 MHz Phase margin ≥ ...

Page 4

... A visualization of Rastrigin’s function for 2 variables is shown in figure 6. The function is highly multimodal with numerous local optima. The global optima lies at the point where all variables have the value 0. AnXplorer has been used to find the global op- tima of this function for many (≥8) variables. Griewank’s function Another example of a multimodal function with numerous local optima is the Griewank’ ...

Related keywords